Does a rule that states that once a player has thrown the ball when serving they cannot catch it exist? I.e., that they must serve or they lose the point otherwise.

I've been accused of throwing and catching the ball in match (when I thought that my opponent wasn't ready or got distracted by something so I didn't want to serve). However, I've also seen pros throwing and catching the ball, and they weren't penalized for that.

The serve starts from the moment before you throw the ball up from your hand. Once the ball is actually thrown, you must go through with your serve or lose the point. It is then up to the umpire to decide if the receiver wasn't ready or there was a distraction to call a let.

That said, the receiver should acknowledge that they weren't ready or were distracted and put their hand up for the let.

You catching the ball "forces the issue", taking control from the umpire who is left to either agree with your assessment or penalise you.

If there is no umpire, if the receiver is in any way a fair person they would acknowledge that you have stopped because they weren't ready or were distracted. Otherwise you are into "he said, she said" territory, so it is better to go through with the serve, then let the receiver signal a request for a let, which you, as a fair player yourself , would agree with.

The serve starts from the moment before you throw the ball up from your hand. Once the ball is actually thrown, you must go through with your serve or lose the point. It is then up to the umpire to decide if the receiver wasn't ready or there was a distraction to call a let.

That's what I understood from what I was told.

But what do you think happened in this Pan America Cup match? Aguirre threw the ball and then caught it, and that seemed to cause no reaction from the umpire.https://youtu.be/ml2nyGRHCms?t=13740at 3:49

Couldn't see what the umpire signalled. I would assume that the umpire may have signalled let as the server was throwing the ball up, so the server could catch the ball as the rally was already stopped. The receiver seemed to "half acknowledge" something in there as well.

Something was definitely called either by the umpire of the receiver (judging by the server's reaction).

In other cases, you may see the server sometimes do a practice throw, when they are looking to check the effect of the lighting on a high toss. This is a little dodgy, but is never a problem in practice as it seems to be clear to everyone that that was not an aborted serve.

The serve starts from the moment before you throw the ball up from your hand. Once the ball is actually thrown, you must go through with your serve or lose the point. It is then up to the umpire to decide if the receiver wasn't ready or there was a distraction to call a let.

That's what I understood from what I was told.

But what do you think happened in this Pan America Cup match? Aguirre threw the ball and then caught it, and that seemed to cause no reaction from the umpire.

at 3h:49m:00s[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2nyGRHCms&t=13740s[/youtube]

You sick sick man! You almost made me watch 3 HOURS of video ! I realised u dint embed the timestamp in the url, but mentioned 3:49 ... I started watching from the beginning

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